Bank24.ru is suspected of violating the federal law on advertising. According to the spokesperson for Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the division is to meet on July 2, 2009 and look into case 49 regarding Bank24.ru and its alleged violation of Article 18 of the Federal Advertising Act. The bank is accused of promoting its services through text messages, to which the bank’s customers never agreed in writing.